Focus: Smallsats

A Rocket Lab Electron vehicle lifted satellites for Planet and Canon Electronics to orbit on Wednesday. In the mission dubbed “In Focus,” Electron took off from Launch Complex 1 in...

ST Engineering iDirect on Tuesday revealed the successful test of its Multi-Frequency Time Division Multiple Access (MF-TDMA) return link on the Telesat Phase-1 Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite. The testing demonstrated...

Kleos Space on Thursday revealed that nanosatellite company Innovative Solutions In Space B.V. (ISISpace) will provide turnkey satellite build and support for the Kleos Space – Polar Vigilance Mission (KSF1)....

ABL Space Systems has completed integrated stage testing of its RS1 small satellite launch vehicle, the company announced Oct. 22. Testing was performed on the RS1 second stage with the...

Launch integration and mission management service provider TriSept Corporation signed a contract with the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) unit to broker and integrate a cubesat technology...

Telesat has selected German company Mynaric to supply optical inter-satellite link (OISL) terminals for Telesat’s work on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Blackjack Track B program. Last week, DARPA...

Intel detailed on Tuesday its contribution to PhiSat-1, a new tiny small satellite that was launched into sun-synchronous orbit on September 2. PhiSat-1 has a new kind of hyperspectral-thermal camera...

AAC Clyde Space will acquire Virginia-based small satellite tech company SpaceQuest, Ltd. to grow operations in the U.S. and to expand Space-as-a-Service offerings. This follows after AAC Clyde Space, a...

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Telesat a further contract worth $18.3 million to develop and test it’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation as part of DARPA’s Blackjack program....

Spaceflight Inc. has signed a Multiple Launch Services Agreement (MLSA) with Earth Observation (EO) company HawkEye 360. Spaceflight announced Oct. 7 that it will provide capacity, engineering, and mission management...